Our enhanced online provider quality ratings help you make informed decisions about your provider options. Independence Blue Cross makes this information available to members through agreements with:
The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) — a coalition of Pennsylvania health care providers and insurers that offers you an easy way to review a variety of health care quality measures on all of the general acute care hospitals in Pennsylvania.
Compare Quality Among Pennsylvania Hospitals with PHCQA
PHCQA’s mission is to improve the quality of patient health by developing a consistent, uniform, statewide approach to hospital quality measures that:
- enables consumers to compare hospital performance
- allows health care professionals to evaluate and improve the quality of their patient care
- helps insurers to evaluate the performance of their provider networks
The health care quality measures available on this site fall into four clinical areas:
- heart attack
- heart failure
- pneumonia
- infection prevention
These areas represent some of the most commonly measured services hospitals provide.
Go to phcqa.org
